4 Arrested in New York Plot

Four men were arrested Wednesday night in what the authorities said was a plot to bomb two synagogues in the Bronx and shoot down military planes at an Air National Guard base in Newburgh, N.Y., reports the New York Times . They were petty criminals who appeared to be acting alone, not in concert with any terrorist organization. They were arrested after after planting what they believed to be bombs in cars outside two synagogues. However, an antiaircraft missile system and the bombs, obtained with the help of an informant for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, were fake.